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Premium Member The Bone Idol
[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]

Prologue
This,  Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...

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Categories: maintain, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: maintain, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member After School Jam Session
How was school today?

Fine.

Did you learn anything important?

Maybe. I'm not sure yet.

Really? What are you considering?

We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.

Maybe I skipped that day
way back in premillennial times
before Permaculture Design had taken...

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Categories: maintain, culture, earth, education, environment, health, humor, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Marcel Moreau's a L'Amour By T Wignesan
Translation of the Elegy: On Marceline Desbordes-Valmore - À L'amour - Poem by Marcel Moreau Translated by T. Wignesan

Reprends de ce bouquet les trompeuses couleurs,      (Take back the dubious colours...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, absence, hate, heartbreak, irony, love, passion,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.

But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...

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Categories: maintain, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Alaskan Oil Pipeline
The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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Categories: maintain, education, environment, history, technology, tribute, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Growing Up, La - Part 2
- - Chapter 2: Adult Responsibility (With Some Breaks) - -     

By ten years old, no weekends off, 
Or Saturday cartoons, 
Although I did have cash to spend, 
I felt my...

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Categories: maintain, life, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chapter 84-- Damian Delilah Mallory: Quest
Date: December 2040

Damian is on the phone speaking 
With architects.  He made
Airline and hotel reservations.
 Soon Afterwards he went 
To Molly and caressed her away from
From a sweet dream. "Hey, baby girl."
He sat on...

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Categories: maintain, africa, age, allusion, beauty, black love, boy,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Operation Money Jump
Thanksgiving, 1971,
a parachute pilgrim approaches Northwest Flight 305
as Dan Cooper, anonymous businessman,  anarchist airborne, 
black suit, black sunglasses, a black tie
and a black briefcase broaching black motives,
Portland to Seattle, prison or criminal pantheon, 
before...

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Categories: maintain, america, history, mystery,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Thor's Cave
In a small village in the green valleys of the Peak District, Sarah gave birth to a son, after a decade of trying for a child with her husband, Peter B Perfekt.  It was...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, allusion, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Plague
as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens...

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Categories: maintain, society,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On Fam'Ly Traditions - Final Third
On Fam'ly Traditions - 3rd third -


With 2 dinky bedrooms...and only 3 beds...the one time I'd been here I'd slept on a cot!  And tossin' a coin for the one with 2 beds...the-odd-man the...

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Categories: maintain, family, together,
Form: Narrative
No Part of the World
NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"

What could...

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Categories: maintain, bible, christian, god, gospel, hate, humanity, truth,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member I'Ve Been So Lucky In Life 1,2
I’ve Been So Lucky in Life! (1&2)
(Only Raped 5 Times Metaphorically)

Poem’s Introduction
My poetry has always been about transparency. It’s about letting go of an effort to be liked by others, and allowing others to gravitate...

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Categories: maintain, abuse, angst, faith, humor, love, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Legend of the Rose
Long 'ere legends encountered finesse amidst flairs of passionate cravings,
thereupon, be a period wherein an episode occasioned an opportunity that will be reserved forever.
An outbreak of dismembering words are been exchanged between groups of rapscallions.
The...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, allusion, analogy, appreciation, fantasy, flower, imagery, imagination,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Coma Conversation: I Am In Your Computer
C:
  I journeyed long upon the way, e-mailed through your router
  hello "Henry", good to greet, I am in your computer
  I am between him and her, so I am gender neuter

...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, computer, creation, hello, imagination, philosophy, science, universe,
Form: Narrative
Poem About Trump Poem
Poem About Trump Poem

Are often things I may forget to mention
Some are both you and your opinion
And many things we have to decide
Not having anything we should hide.

Following poem I did have to prepare
This is...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, allegory, anger, anxiety,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Pipe Lines of Kaimu: Imu Ground Oven
Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration, happiness, religion, together,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Three

Vespers’ Prayer Preparation for Black Mass
In preparation for the ritual Black Mass at midnight, Rosalia recites the following prayer incantation which must be rendered latest...

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Categories: maintain, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bucky Fuller's Holonic Ghost
Let’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,

while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and awareness
influenced by feelings of EarthCentric  BiCameral Consciousness
as Plan A,
so...

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Categories: maintain, earth, earth day, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Perfect Love, Optimal Life
Perfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.

Could this perfection of synergetic harmony and confluence
we have grown to love as love itself
become...

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Categories: maintain, culture, love, nature, philosophy, science, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu Uraiththal
Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e.,  cantos...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: maintain, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil, true love, women,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Growing
Two girls far apart leading different but crazy similar lives 
Lots of progress and work - arousing with small talk of becoming wives
But are those emotions genuinely what you wanna explore?
The journeys we will have,...

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Categories: maintain, girlfriend, women,
Form: Rhyme
Excerpt From Fake Encomium Given Years Ago
Excerpt from “fake” encomium given years ago... 
at Lake Wobegone High School (my alma mater), 

and recently discovered ridiculous rough draft
amidst plethora of junk emails
while practice reading some lines 
regarding Midsummer Night's Dream 
upcoming performance.

Arch...

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Categories: maintain, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
There Was An Old Lady Who Lived In a Hut
I heard a story being told by a traveling man. He told of a story that was passed down from father to son for generations This story journeyed from country to country and was translated...

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Categories: maintain, appreciation, friendship, society, symbolism, tribute, visionary, woman,
Form: Metrical Tale

Book: Reflection on the Important Things